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[QUOTE="nycfan, post: 1797292, member: 583"]
Actually more surprised they took Calderon's contract as he is washed up now  (less money but Lopez was a solid player last year).   This is an absolute steal---3 spare parts for a guy that is a stud when he is not injured.  There are plenty of guys that can play the 5  (even Porzingas played some minutes there last year---could play more at the 5 this year).   Many teams are going with smaller line-ups now, without a true center.   And the Knicks still have 3 years left (cheap) of 6'10" Kyle O'Quinn too, who averaged 4.3 rebs in just 14 mpg  (that's about 12 reb/gm per 40 min).   O'Quinn was considered the best value signing of last summer---4 year deal at $16M total (at the time they weren't expecting much from Porzingas in his rookie season).  Thus, O'Quinn was the odd man out of the rotation.

They have about $30M in cap room too---if they land one more stud, no reason why they can't be top-2 in the East if Rose stays healthy---think about it, how many teams have 4 studs?

And not a lot of risk with Rose---one year left, when his contract expires next year if they don't want to bring him back they will have a ton of money coming off the cap to work with (huge year for free agents next year too).  Knicks could then target Westbrook if they didn't want to bring back Rose.
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